Thursday's letters to the editor

Our incredible shrinking privacy

My wife and I recently received an email alert from a government agency, but when she inquired about it, was told that the operator couldn't talk to her because the account is in my name.

It's a sad reality that as government and business impose greater restrictions through numerous user names and especially passwords in order to access information - all in the name of privacy protection - the many recent revelations tell us that we really have less and less privacy from those who impose these so-called "privacy protection" restrictions. And as technology improves, the level of watching will increase.

GEORGE WAAS

waas01@comcast.net

U.S. needs to stop supporting the enemy

I commend the letter reminding us all what democracy is and what it means. In the same vein, I think it should be increasingly clear that the political movements in the Middle East that have been cast as "democratic" are in reality struggles for power by Islamists.

The governments of Egypt and Libya were relatively secular autocracies, which we in our enlightened freedom-loving philosophies considered tyrannies. In the case of Syria, which our president wants to attack, the rebels particularly target Christians and Christian villages. In Egypt, Christian churches were burned and Christian enclaves attacked; many Christians were killed simply because they were not Muslims. Is that what we want for allies and for governments in power?

It's time for America to wake up and see that we are aiding and abetting the enemy and to stop it.

YVONNE RICHARDSON

yrich44@comcast.net

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Thursday's letters to the editor

My wife and I recently received an email alert from a government agency, but when she inquired about it, was told that the operator couldn't talk to her because the account is in my name.